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Mt Zion Baptist Church will be honor its pastor and wife’s five-year anniversary this weekend. The programs honoring the Rev.
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SGLY: Forever loved
Often a photograph will pop up on my phone, showing me a memory. Sometimes I must put on my glasses and examine the picture to recall where, when, and with whom I was doing what. Other times, I can see the outline and know the exact moment. Today, the picture delivered to my phone transported me beyond memory and straight to the moment that occurred almost 10 years ago with my daughter.
Moments with the minister: A zeal for God’s house
By Brian Taylor “For zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me”. Psalm 69:9 At the beginning of Christ’s ministry, he turns water into wine in Cana of Galilee, but his first act in Jerusalem, before anyone knew who he was, was to flip over some tables in the temple, and to chase the Passover lambs right out the temple doors as Christ cleared the Court of the Gentiles in Herod’s Temple.
At the movies: Three Thousand Years of Longing is a flawed, but grand exploration of storytelling
Special to the Herald Democrat Three Thousand Years of Longing may hinge its plot on wishes, but this is primarily a cinematic ode to the power of stories. The way we tell them or the types of characters who inhabit them may change over the centuries, but human beings are always entranced by a good story.
New charter service, aviation provider headed to NTRA
Generation Jets has leased the former US Aviation building at North Texas Regional Airport. Officials for Generation Jets said the company will provide a variety ranging from charter and aircraft sales to management and maintenance with NTRA serving as its hub of operations.
Good Morning: Check in with yourself
It’s Labor Day weekend. Local children have already gone back to school. Battle of the Axe has passed. Football season has started. Fall is not officially here yet, but it feels like we are entering into a new season.
President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness
Wall Street Journal President Biden’s student- loan write-off is the gift that keeps on giving, unless you’re the sap who paid off her loan or didn’t go to college. Thanks to a little-known provision in the March 2021 COVID spending bill, student borrowers will get a hefty tax benefit on top of their $10,000 or $20,000 in canceled debt.
Lindsey Graham’s riot prediction
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham on Sunday said that if the Justice Department prosecutes former president Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, there will be “riots in the street.” A few minutes later, he said it again. There is no excuse for this irresponsible rhetoric, which not only invites violence but also defies democratic norms.
Audrey “Lavon” Hunt
Audrey “Lavon” Hunt passed away peacefully on August 25, 2022. She was 3 weeks away from turning 101.
Robbidean Carolyn Gruver
(April 15, 1941 August 29, 2022) Robbidean Carolyn Gruver (Robbie), age 81, of Plano, Tx, passed away peacefully at her residence on Monday, August 29, 2022. Robbie was born on April 15, 1941 in Sherman, TX to Robin F.